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  Tourism | 5/13/2025

  Jordi Hereu inaugurates the Parador de Molina de Aragón, which consolidates the commitment to sustainable tourism and local development

  The Parador, which is the 98th in the national network, is a new building with 24 rooms, gastronomic spaces, event rooms and a wellness areaThe investment has exceeded €22 million and its opening will significantly boost this Castilla-La Mancha region, creating around 35 direct jobsThe inauguration was attended by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, and the president of Paradores, Raquel Sánchez

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  Industry | 5/13/2025

  The Ministry of Industry and Tourism provisionally approves 3 new projects under line 1 of the PERTE decarbonisation programme worth €10 M.

  The projects approved are those of Biocarburantes de Castilla y León (Salamanca) who was awarded €7.5 million euros; Aceites Coosur (Jaén), awarded €1.7 million; and Siero Lam (Asturias), awarded €726,000. Including those announced today, the Industry has already granted aid – including grants and loans – worth more than €471 million to 95 PERTE decarbonisation projects.

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  The Ministry | 5/12/2025

  The Ministry of Industry and Tourism opens its doors to citizens during Open Government Week 2025

  Among the activities lined up over the coming days are an exhibition of tourist posters, visits to a number of different centres belonging to the Ministry, and visits to the archives The events are part of an initiative fostered by the Open Government Partnership (Open Gov Week) The goal is to bring the administration closer to the citizen, based around five principles:: transparency, accountability, citizen participation, public integrity and collaboration

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  Industry | 5/9/2025

  Hereu announces the specific call for the battery section of the PERTE VEC IV, amount to a total of €280 M.

  The Minister of Industry and Tourism announces that the battery section of the VEC IV, whose rules are published today in the BOE, will be launched next month and urges the sector to apply for funding. The government is fostering the electric vehicle charging network, which now has more than 40,000 public charging points in operation, a 33% increase over last year, making us the sixth country in Europe in terms of recharging infrastructure..

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  Tourism | 5/9/2025

  The tourism industry kicked off the year employing 2.7 million, 1.2% more than in the first quarter of 2024.
  

  In the first quarter of 2025 there were 34,347 more employees in tourism activities than in the same quarter of 2024 despite the fact that this year Easter fell outside this periodEmployees in the tourism sector with permanent contracts increased by 2.7%, the fifteenth consecutive riseThe seasonality rate in the tourism industry remained at 14.7%, lower than the seasonality rate for the national economy as a whole, which was 15.1% In this first quarter, the number of people employed in the tourism sector increased in nine autonomous communities